Notes

7] Charing Cross: a London street known as the place for secondhand booksellers, but Flecker refers to the Cross itself, standing before Charing Cross railway station. The Cross, a replica of the last of a dozen crosses that marked the stations of the funeral procession of Eleanor of Castile, late queen of Edward I, in 1290, is traditionally the location from which all British road distances to London are measured. And do the "smoking wheels" of line 9 belong to a train? (Thanks to Anne Harper for her assistance with this note.) Back to Line

13] a hall in Bloomsbury: a square and a district in west London where the British Museum, then also the British Library, was found. Back to Line

23] Westminster: west of the City of London, along the Thames. Back to Line